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Friday, March 22, 2013

Frightday Night Fun

After days of tsuris with youtubian contrarian BS, I've loaded a new version of my browser and gotten back to viewing lovely old programs. Among a lot of dross there are fabulous series that I loved as a kid. Back then they scared me silly but I couldn't wait to watch them, late on a Friday night. I love them still. Especially when you see them now and find Captain Kirk and Mrs. Howell with a haunted painting in Boris Karloff's Thriller Theatre:

On each of those pages, you'll find many other episodes of these shows, plenty to keep you entertained by another era, when being chilled and disturbed didn't involve torture and buckets of fake blood.

I loved a lot of the old shows, too. It's funny how easy it was to entertain us (me, anyway) in the '50s and early '60s. Now, I look at some of those old shows... like "Flash Gordon", where you could honest-to-God see the strings holding the "rocket" up, and have a somewhat different take on them. Not "Twilight Zone", though. Those shows may not have been very high-tech, but they were clever and thought-provoking as all get-out. And still are.

By the way, I don't know if you keep track of how much "space" you've used on Picasa by posting images and videos on your blog, but I just thought I'd let you know. Videos under fifteen minutes are "free", meaning you can post them to your heart's content, without affecting the amount of free space you have available for your blog. Videos beyond that can deplete your free space pretty quickly. (However, you can purchase additional space... a LOT of additional space... for like five bucks. But I'm, uh... cheap. Scratch that... make that "frugal".)

I also remember "Captain Kirk" in an episode of "The Twilight Zone". He's in a restaurant with his wife and they keep reading these predictions out of some machine at their table. Anyway, my comment has reached the "outer Limits" :)